Sorcery or Science? : Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts

• Tác giả: Ariela Marcus-Sells
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0271093079
• Thông tin xuất bản: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (232 pages) : , illustrations (black and white), map ;
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 372303
• Chủ đề: 1. Islamic magic--History--Sahara; 2. Sufism--History--Sahara; 3. Islamic magic; 4. Sufism

Tóm tắt

"Examines the works of two Sufi Muslim scholars, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son Sīdi Muḥammad (d. 1826), focusing on their cosmology and metaphysics of the realm of the unseen, in relation to the history of magical discourses within the Hellenistic and Arabo-Islamic worlds"-- Provided by publisher.